From: Tom Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com>
To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sparc sun4c support - time to drop it?
Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 17:59:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FA80D6F.6040604@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120505162104.GA14563@merkur.ravnborg.org>
On 05/07/2012 01:46 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> There are unsuprisingly some that for sentimental
> reasons would like to keep sun4c support in-kernel.
>
> But sun4c is outdated and if anyone want to run something
> on a sun4c box the *BSD variants has better performance.
>
> Also considering that sun4c support has been broken for
> some time and there is a few changes pending where sun4c
> does not make things simpler we will drop sun4c support.
I haven't powered on any of my sun4c (or older) kit in several years, so
I'm also supportive of this change.
~tom
=
Fedora Project
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-07 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-05 16:21 sparc sun4c support - time to drop it? Sam Ravnborg
2012-05-05 19:26 ` Alan Perry
2012-05-06 4:01 ` Mark Fortescue
2012-05-06 6:37 ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-05-06 6:52 ` Julian Calaby
2012-05-06 9:53 ` Kaj-Michael Lang
2012-05-06 10:29 ` Julian Calaby
2012-05-06 17:05 ` David Miller
2012-05-06 17:28 ` Kaj-Michael Lang
2012-05-07 10:26 ` crn
2012-05-07 14:01 ` Mark Fortescue
2012-05-07 14:03 ` Mark Fortescue
2012-05-07 17:46 ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-05-07 17:59 ` Tom Callaway [this message]
2012-05-07 20:17 ` Mark Fortescue
2012-05-07 20:28 ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-05-07 20:50 ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-05-07 23:07 ` Julian Calaby
2012-05-07 23:16 ` David Miller
2012-05-07 23:19 ` Julian Calaby
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